Modifying the Default Behavior

Before you learn how to implement transaction processing, take a look at what you can do to modify the default behavior of the transaction processing built into Access 2002. Three Registry settings affect implicit transactions in Access 2002: ImplicitCommitSync, ExclusiveAsnycDelay, and SharedAsyncDelay. These keys are located in the \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Jet\4.0\Engines\Jet 4.0 Registry folder.

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You can access the Windows Registry using the RegEdit utility. To utilize RegEdit, select the Run option from the Start menu. Then type RegEdit.

The ImplicitCommitSync setting determines whether the system waits for a commit to finish before proceeding with application processing. The default is No

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